#@spacemutineer

[friday411]

Because the night *belongs* to Jeremy Brett

Check out this heartfelt tribute video to Jeremy Brett from @SillyGirlBlue on YouTube...

It's a montage of mostly other roles he's done so there's

*Lots* of romantic snogging!

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Five Fics Friday: July 19/24

Happy Friday everyone!! It's been a long week, so let's settle in cozily and check out these fics on the radar this week! Enjoy!

RECENT MFLs

Responsible Adults by J_Baillier (M, 16,279 w., 9 Ch. || Post-S4, Family, Illness, Suicide, Grieving John, Fatherhood, Injury, Psychological Trauma, Angst, Guilt, Substance Abuse, Major Character Death) – After the events at Musgrave Hall, those affected are trying, and struggling, to move on with their lives. And life is hardly going to stop throwing new challenges at them.

The Scientist's Method by spacemutineer (T, 26,607 w., 7 Ch. || ACD / Granada Holmes Canon || Angst with Happy Ending, Hurt / Comfort, Time Loop, Blood / Injury, Doctor John, Developing Relationship, BAMF John, Temporary Character Death, Guilt, Drug Use / Addiction, Grief / Mourning, Friendship / Love) – Sherlock Holmes has always known the world through the straightforward lenses of evidence, logic, and reasoning. But when Watson is caught in a tragic preventable disaster, his trusted clear lines of reality start to shift and blur, and the scientist detective begins to piece together a grand discovery far beyond even his exceptional imagination. Detection is a way of learning and science is a way of knowing, but as Sherlock Holmes is about to realise, love is a way of understanding.

Tango Between Broken Hearts by curlyjohnlock (E, 38,333+ w., 10/25 Ch. || WiP || Post S4, Slow Romance, Slow Burn, BAMF John, Emotional Hurt / Comfort, Emotional Manipulation, Grief / Mourning, Angst with Happy Ending, Gaslighting, Possessive Behaviour, Unhealthy Relationships, Heartbreak, Flashbacks, POV Alternating, Bearded John, Depression, Drunk John, Hurt John / Sherlock, Denial of Feeling, Miscommunication, PTSD, Drug Addiction / Abuse, Family Drama / Secrets, Christmas, Cuddling / Snuggling, Hand Jobs, Protective Greg, Parenthood) – Fate brought Sherlock and John together, but a terrible incident tore them apart. A decade can feel like an eternity when you're forcibly separated from the person you've been desperately in love with. Now that fate is giving them a second chance, unpleasant memories resurface, and the heartbreak they both share is taking more than just time to heal. Will they be able to overcome the past, or will a higher power keep them forever apart?

RECENT LOKIUS BOOKMARKS

Moribund by sticks_and_souls (T, 2,884 w., 1 Ch. || LOKI SERIES || S2 Deleted Scene, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Time Slipping, First Kiss, Making Out, Kissing, Time Looping, Heavy Angst) – Everyone keeps talking about how in all the infinite replays that Loki did, he would have taken time to make out with Mobius. So I manifested a version of that (with just a wee sprinkling of angst).

only looking for a little peace by RunnyYolk (M, 57,051 w., 5 Ch. || LOKI SERIES || Season 1 Divergence, Alternating POV, Developing Relationship, The Void, Emotional Hurt / Comfort, Loki Variants, Flashbacks, Protective Loki, Protective Mobius, Action/Adventure, Referenced Torture, Canon-Typical Violence, Betrayals, Reunions, Grief/Mourning, Trust Issues, Self-Hatred, Jötunn Loki, Catharsis, Touch Starvation, Mutual Pining, First Kiss, Affection, Implied Sex, Jealous Loki, Love Confessions, Crying, Emotional First Kiss, Emotional Love Making, Arguments Leads to Kiss, Hugs) – "Nothing in politics is 'quite' peaceful." "Well, I did no worse than any of the politicians opposite me, I can assure you." "No, that's true," Mobius concedes. "And you did great, really excelled at the game. You laid all the groundwork to be a very successful president. Maybe you would've turned that into more, after a while." "Perhaps." Part 5 of where the edge began

[spacemutineer]

Sherlock Holmes has always known the world through the straightforward lenses of evidence, logic, and reasoning. But when Watson is caught in a tragic preventable disaster, his trusted clear lines of reality start to shift and blur, and the scientist detective begins to piece together a grand discovery far beyond even his exceptional imagination.

Detection is a way of learning and science is a way of knowing, but as Sherlock Holmes is about to realise, love is a way of understanding.

[geeoharee]

And that concludes The Dying Detective! Gonna be honest with you, I am scheduling this post at midnight on the 26th while a file transfer completes so I have not re-read the ending yet. Let's settle for "That sure did happen, didn't it"

Anyway - fandom LOVES rewriting this one and you can see why. Here are some of my favourite takes!

Inevitably first on my lists, Katie Forsythe's 'Undiscovered Country'. Watson POV. Watson is still living at Baker Street. Watson is very nosy. Watson finds the ivory box first. Oops. (This one is slightly harder going than the others below as someone actually gets very ill. If you've read KF before you can expect comparable angst. Sex in the last scene.) https://liquidfic.azurewebsites.net/undiscovered.html

spacemutineer's 'The Acting Physician'. Holmes POV. Starts the same way as canon with Holmes trying to fool Watson, but it turns out he can't always have everything his own way... G-rated. https://archiveofourown.org/works/552256

apliddell's 'My Dear Doctor'. Holmes POV. Canon divergence, Holmes decides that is a stupid plan and lets Watson in on all of it from the start. I love how sweet they are with each other in this one. G-rated. https://archiveofourown.org/works/13299366

okapi's 'The Dying (Undead) Detective'. Watson POV. Bit of a different thing, this is in their 'Watson's a werewolf and Holmes is a vampire' verse, which I just want everyone to know about cos it's really fun. G-rated. https://archiveofourown.org/works/27208090

[friday411]

Love's Labors Lost Staring Jeremy Brett *in tights*

I love Shakespeare, but this is before he really got the hang of things, so there's a lot you can fast-forward through.

Jeremy's character Berowne is introduced in the beginning of course, but if you forward to 47 minutes in, that's when it gets juicy...

Just read this and fast forward through the scenes he’s not in.

[spacemutineer]

Sherlock Holmes has always known the world through the straightforward lenses of evidence, logic, and reasoning. But when Watson is caught in a tragic preventable disaster, his trusted clear lines of reality start to shift and blur, and the scientist detective begins to piece together a grand discovery far beyond even his exceptional imagination.

Detection is a way of learning and science is a way of knowing, but as Sherlock Holmes is about to realise, love is a way of understanding.

[friday411]

Please LMK if this is too much peer pressure, I thought you guys might like it…

@panzercat @i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end @blistering-typhoons @spacemutineer @gentleman-detective @calaisreno @totallysilvergirl @futabasglasses @jay-wasreblogging

god I fucking love strawberries

[argylepiratewd]

🌹I'd love a bit of one of your WIPs...

I’m cheating and giving two sentences:

John almost lost a friend. He cannot dismiss that just because he was the friend in question.

[educatedinyellow]

Thank you for tagging me, @sanguinarysanguinity!

Rules: Write the latest line from your WIP and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog. 

I’ve been fiddling with a handful of disparate lines from my Vimes/Vetinari WIP tonight. Here, have a sampler:

The story spread across the glittering ballroom, and before long Lord Rust wandered over to bend Vetinari's ear. "You hear that, Havelock? What absolute rot! This poor fellow thinks he can tell every street in the city by the feel of the cobblestones under his boots."

Vetinari considered politely. "An impressive feat," he pronounced. The corner of his mouth ticked up as Vimes coughed, surprised mid-swallow. He then raised a glass and said the only thing that could possibly have made Vimes stop drinking: "Do have another, my lord. I insist."

~~

There weren't many other positions in life that a man like him could reasonably be expected to lose, but he kept almost losing this one.

~~

Frowning hard but holding steady in the world's most froward clinch, they caught their breaths, unwilling to separate.

~~

But loving another person like he loved himself wasn't gentle; it wasn't nice. He loved with vigilance, and with the benefit of all his doubt.

~~

Vetinari had given Leonard the task of designing traps capable of hemming himself in, because he was too much of a genius to be contained by prisons of anyone else's design. It was a game that His Lordship played against himself as well, Vimes was coming to realize – setting up counterweights, raising up guilds and banks and bloody-minded Watchmen.

I will tag anyone who wants to play, and specifically @a-candle-for-sherlock, @viridiandecisions, @scfrankles, @spacemutineer, @pipmer!

[friday411]

This is amazing!!!

I love a good time travel stor,y one with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson even more!

It's not only the best I've read (all bookmarkable), it's now one of my top stories *ever* - I'm keeping it up in a browser tab.

-----------------

Please let me know if don't want to be tagged!

@PanzerCat @blistering-typhoons @keirgreeneyes @lucere-aeresta @victorianpining @TotallySilverGirl @spacemutineer @rainbow-person @7-percent @iris-best-taken-in-small-doses @futabasglasses @i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end @weast-of-eden @jay-wasreblogging @thefisherqueen @chinike @Contact-guy @calaisreno @thegildedbee @estl-and-agape @sygneth @anneangel @futabasglasses @thequestionofme

Through a Glass, Darkly by Calais Reno

Chapter 1: The Alley

It begins in an alley. Two alleys, to be accurate. John and Sherlock, chasing a suspect. Holmes and Watson running for their lives. While John and Sherlock try to clear their names in ACD universe, Holmes and Watson are solving a missing persons case.

My unending thanks to @keirgreeneyes for beta-reading this tale of switched realities 💕💕💕

Thank you for reading and reblogging! Let me know if you'd like to be tagged/untagged.

@mydogwatson @lisbeth-kk @totallysilvergirl @keirgreeneyes @startrekker2011 @iamjustreading @original-welovethebeekeeper @meetinginsamarra @thegildedbee @safedistancefrombeingsmart @jolieblack @ninasnakie @13monkton @dissolvinggirl @confused-sherlockian @thesaltofcarthage @still-prefer-books @kestrelwing64 @luna06newman @whatnext2020

[throwing-summers-at-the-walls]

Hi, i hope you are feeling good! Im better than yesterday so i can finally answer you. First of all: i am so happy that you shared your fanfiction! i had a great time reading it! Im always open for more recs. Maybe your all time favorites? Or if you know some good h/c these are always welcome :) And YESSS please send me a link to your fanvids. -- yeah 13rw was super cursed. haha i also watched season 1 but thankfully i was able to sto watching becaue i could feel it making me feel bad (1)

I agree the suicide scene was just cringe (but i think i remember reading somewhere that they cut it out? idk) and overall this show just gave me the feeling that there was no hope and things are always getting worse instead of better and i hated that. but enough of that cursed show. can i just say i really admire how open you are about your feelings (like being suicidal and that) i realy, really admire this about you. i have so much respect for you that you can just share your feelings here (2)

I have never heard of ace attorney but that story you described sounds really good. and i get reading sth that isnt good for you and still doing it (because im a dumb bitch too :D) -- okay i might accept that Root will never grow on you (but i thought so too and look at me now :D) but i havent fully given up yet :)-- yes thats the girl. i think it was really sweet when she said that to Shaw. and i think Shaw appreciated it that someone tried to figure her out instead of just writting her off (3)

Shaw is really cool and definately also a badass and in combination with John its just great! but you will have to suffer trough some Shoot.  but maybe, maybe you will end up not hating Root. hope dies last (idk how the saying goes in english, sorry). -- Did you ever ship Caresse (in a romantic way)? cause sometimes i do and sometimes i dont and i get so confused about it :) but i think most of the time i like them more as friends. anyway her death really sucked and you are right with (4)

her death and them losing the library it felt like a different show (i mean i guess it was a different show then). i kinda get your feelings about the destroyed library because i also really loved it (and im really bad with change) but i dont think it affected me as much as you. but yeah i still missed the library very much. and while the subway is a really cool new place its not the same. (also the subway is super dark cause its underground and idk it just makes the whole thing less homey) (5)

Yes he is everything! such a great, interesting character and i wish there were more John-centric episodes! (like ones that explored his character more). that was one of my biggest dislikes of the later seasons that John wasnt featured as much anymore. i think he chuckled a few times in the show but a real laugh? i cant remember one :(  -- He did promise Joss to talk to Tyler so @show were is that talk? -- if seen the vid its awesome! thehiddenmemory has some great poi vids! (6)

yes i think so too. Like Grace would probably be relived and thankful that Harold is still alive and maybe they would even try again but eventually she would figure out that she cant trust him after lying to him for so long or sth like that and Harold would ofc realize that he is in love with someone else now. And then he finds out that John is still alive but stayed away cause he didnt want to get in the way of Harold/Grace. But then Harold comes back. And when they meet again John is like (7)

you came back for the machine? what about Grace. But Harold tells him he came back for John not the machine and then they kiss and have a happy live with Bear (sorry i got a little carried away here :D). -- Yeah Zoe is really hot and she needed more screen time! -- i hope you have a good day and i hope i havent messed up the numbers on the asks! :)

Hi ! I'm finally free from the resits, I hope you're doing okay with your thesis 💛

Sorry for replying late, there was the exam resits, and I read a bunch of fics, then I fell into pokémon and started bingewatching it. (Also I had a breakdown during therapy today so I'm gonna finish writing my answer to distract myself - it's been sitting in my drafts for so long rip)

Thank you !! It was a very personal thing, I'm really happy you liked it !! Your support and your comment made me thrive 💛💛

Tbh I was surprised to see it get kudos given that the only intended audience was my self projecting ass 🤣

So, my fav fics (my fav fic ever is in French, rip to y'all bc it's so good):

I am, I am, I am by RavenWhitecastle

Actually check the entire series this work belongs to: The Sinner and the Saint. I haven't finished it yet but I love it (I just skipped the explicit fics bc I don't like smut or sub!John)

Breaking All The Rules by talkingtothesky

Outsider Perspective by Neery

A Really Private Person by astolat

Hamartia (the hero's fatal flaw) by astolat

If Only for Tonight by spacemutineer

From Here, Where? by AKMars

Stroll by TheaNishimori

and the world was gone by lunarcorvid

a light that never goes out by vindicatedtruth

Limitations. by Michaelssw0rd

Reel you in and spit you out by Michaelssw0rd

All I Want For Christmas Is You by richmahogany

By What Power I Am Made Bold by brinnanza

Aftershocks by darringtons

At Certain Hours It All Breaks Down by nogoaway

construction of a kingdom by the_ragnarok

You Take Me Higher Than I've Gone by talkingtothesky

All Together Now by beadedslipper

I'll Let the Waters Still by brinnanza

Birthday Tradition by talkingtothesky

Things My Father Taught Me by KRyn

Truth is in the Eye of the Beholder by infiniteeight

Better Luck This Time by Lisztful

Motivations by JenNova

What's On the Table by cortue

In Another Life by Della19

I Thought We Already Were by talkingtothesky

Misunderstandings by thisstarvingartist

This is already fucking long omg so for the h/c: my bookmarks filtered with Rinch and h/c

Here's my playlist, it's mostly Rinch, but there are a few not Rinch vids, plus some scenes I like

This is long enough already, so it's time for a read more. Also, warning, we be talking about suicide

The portrayal of suicide is cringe most of the time anyway. If my suicidal ass can find a list of suicide methods and their lethality in 2 mins on Google you'd think writers who are supposed to do some research would be able to find them too but no they're like "ah yes slicing wrists" even though it's literally the shittiest method 🙄 (I just don't understand why slicing wrists seems to be such a popular method in the collective imagination ? It's weird.) At least in 13rw she took aspirin and cut herself vertically instead of horizontally but still, no hesitation wounds, and she dies even though she only got 4 wounds iirc ? I know more about jumping off bridges than slicing wrists, but it kinda sounds like bullshit to me. Also Netflix once suggested "beyond the reasons" to me, it's a sort of discussion with the cast and crew of 13rw and the only thing I remember is a moment of intellectual masturbation abt how they "opened a discussion abt suicide" 😬😬😬

They may have cut it out it's not impossible, idk I didn't hear about it, but it's not like I look for info about this dumpster fire lol. Maybe they faced backlash ? Wouldn't be surprised given how shit the show was. And yeah it has a hopeless vibe, I mean that's how it be when you're suicidal, but I didn't like it either.

You're sweet 💜💜 it's interesting that you find it respectable or admirable, I don't have an external point of view, so I'm just like 🤷 it is what it is. I understand where you're coming from though, I guess it's still quite a taboo subject, and suicidal people don't always feel comfortable talking about it, so me throwing around that I jumped off a bridge must be surprising. I'm detached enough from my suicide attempt that I'm able to talk about it without much of a problem, and I'm not really suicidal anymore.

Dumb bitches unite 👏👏👏 we be out there reading shit we shouldn't read

Yeah I think it's nice how the show didn't portray Shaw as a bad person for not having "normal feelings". Well, hope makes one live as we say in French (idk the English saying either lol) but don't hold much hope about me liking Root lmao

I used to ship careese bc they kissed in the crossing, but then I read some Rinch fics and I just ended up falling into it to the point where I stopped caring about careese. Now I think their relationship works better as a friendship.

Yeah all that change really puts me off... It just gives me "bad spin-off" vibes. Especially since there is less John :( and less Rinch :((((

Lmao yeah I just have a lot of feelings about early poi hgkfglrk. Also :/ I'm sad about the subway being less homey pls I just want happiness ?? I swear this show destroys my heart on top of owning my last braincell (brb changing my blog title to this lmao)

Mood I need all the John-centric eps, give me m o r e characterization and development and backstory and feelings hhhhhhh. I love him so much I just wanna spend more time with him. And that's what fics are for ! Yeah thehiddenmemory is so talented ! Astolat made some good ones too, on top of writing really good fics ! (Our fandom has been blessed with the presence of one of the ao3 founders hell yeah)

Also, remember how we talked abt the poi subreddit ? The other day I left a comment on there, wild I know. It wasn't a discussion about the last seasons though, I'm not crazy, it was about the impact poi had in our lives so I said it literally taught me English. Who knows maybe sometimes I'll comment again lol. I just don't wanna meet one of those people who prefer late poi over early poi.

Allow me to uuuuh write something based on what you said. Don't ask me how John survived with no major injuries, my man got that Thick Plot Armor alright. Hope you appreciate me getting carried away sjdkdksk it's kinda rushed and the first part isn't that good bc idk how to write Grace I'm just here for that sweet sweet Rinch stuff

Harold is eating breakfast with Grace in her kitchen – he can't think of her home as his home – when his phone vibrates. It's a text from the machine. It's a surprise, she barely contacted him since... He blocks the thoughts and the images coming to his mind. The machine sent him a picture. When he opens it, his heart misses a beat. Right here on his screen is a silhouette he thought he would never see again. His phone vibrates again. Another picture, this time it's unmistakably John, wearing his signature suit, Bear next to him. Transfixed, he stares at his phone until he feels Grace gently touching his arm. She goes straight to the point.

"Is it John ?" He looks up in confusion, but before he can say anything, she adds, "I hear you call him in your sleep every night."

"It's him, yes." He doesn't want to explain. He only wants to see John, to touch him, to tell him how much he loves him.

"You should go back to him. I like you, Harold. I am deeply relieved to see you alive. But I've been thinking, and... It's not working. This, us... You aren't really the man I fell in love with, the man I grieved... I can't trust you anymore." She doesn't say 'You lied to me' but Harold hears it all the same.

~

Harold sits on their bench. The machine indicated John often comes here. Soon enough, his arms are full of Bear, and John is standing in front of him.

"John. How are you ?" he asks when Bear finally calms down.

"Busy. And you ?"

Harold eyes him suspiciously – John once said he was busy when he was bleeding and way too close to death – but he seems to be well.

"I'm fine." He doesn't have time for awkward small talk." I thought you were dead. Why didn't you contact me ?"

"The machine told me you were with Grace. I thought you wanted to come back to your previous life. I didn't want to crash into it and ruin what you had."

Harold wants to be angry at him, but he understands. He did the same with Grace.

"You would never ruin anything. Besides, my relationship with Grace... didn't survive my lies. She's very dear to my heart, but she's a part of my previous life, as you said."

"So you came back for the machine, and the numbers, like the good old times ?"

Harold gets up from the bench.

"I came back for you. You are an important part of my life. The most important part."

John smiles, finally. He takes a step towards Harold, they're so close they could kiss. Harold reaches out, grips his shirt and slowly inches closer. He's still afraid of being rejected but John wraps his arm around him and kisses him. The kiss is over too soon. John's smile is even wider when they part.

"You're the most important part of my life too," he says before kissing Harold again. "You will stay ?"

"Always."

Damn I live for sappy Rinch stuff.

Bitches decided that Harold saying "always" is peak Rinch. It's me I'm bitches.

Also ofc I had to make a reference to number crunch, who do you think I am

Anyway. I hope you have a good day ! 💛

[eatinguptheboredom]

My friend wrote this and I LOVE IT

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25713544/chapters/62435425

[a-candle-for-sherlock]

Writing Meme

Thank you for the tags @sanguinarysanguinity and @gailbsanders!

What is your total posted word count on AO3? (Go to your Works, then click Statistics.)

163k--soon to be upped by my Holmestice fic!

How often do you write?

For a while it was every night. Then I had a flare-up of my chronic pain + an old injury and didn’t write anything for months--reading is much better than writing for full immersion when I’m uncomfortable! I guess I’d say writing is episodic for me.

Do you have a routine for writing?

When an idea is coming together, daydream-rehearse scenes repeatedly, improv conversations in my head, write down phrases that come to me with extra clarity. That’s stage one. Stage two is to shut myself away in my room with a fuzzy pillow behind my back, a snack, and the fan running, and just go at it. Describe what’s in my head, and try to write myself from one scene to the next coherently.

What’s your favorite kinks/tropes/pairing?

Kinks: TRUE LOVE. The kind that grows with the people in it.

Tropes: Friends to lovers, first kisses, established relationship epiphanies.

Pairings: I read so many but I write Holmes/Watson in some iteration almost exclusively. They’ve got it all--true friendship, love, Edwardian queer culture, mysteries, domesticity, the whole round.

Do you have a favorite fic of yours?

All of them have things I love, but the one I’m proudest of at the moment is To Join These Men In Holy Matrimony, because it has a different kind of intimacy than I’d written for Holmes and Watson before--more patient and aware, I think.

Your fic with the most kudos?

Notes On A Love Story. I think Holmes finding his own queerness in reading another queer man’s writing struck a chord--a lot of us are here reading fic because we learned to see our loves in it.

Anything you don’t like about your writing?

No--I choose not to analyze it that way, any more than I analyze the way I talk aloud for structural flaws. Picking it apart that way would change it, I think. I try to write as truly as I can to what I know and love. My writing changes as I do, so I focus more on learning to see and understand the world better, and find clearer words for it.

Now something you do like?

The way writing characters lets me learn things about them I hadn’t known when I started. I don’t know how that happens, but it’s my favorite part.

Tagging any writer who’d like to do this (let me know if you do!) and @the-prince-of-professors @thesadchicken @spacemutineer @discordantwords @notjustamumj @dwarven-beard-spores @lvslie @fellshish @saki101 @jbaillier if you like!

[friday411]

Thank you for adding to my reading list @i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end !!

I couldn’t help but drink the short and sweet Flowery Prose down with my coffee, and I’m twitching in anticipation of what happened to that cat!

I have to say though that I’m not sure I’m ready to reread The Absolute Truth of the Matter yet.

This story is one of the stories in the archive that has brought tears to my eyes.

So my advice is to read this wonderful story only if you can handle the angst.

Spoiler Alert: happy ending

@PanzerCat @blistering-typhoons @keirgreeneyes @lucere-aeresta @victorianpining @TotallySilverGirl @rudbeckiasunflower @spacemutineer

🔎🐝 This is a master post of my Sherlock Holmes fanfiction which you can also find on Ao3! 🐝🔎

For details and warnings, follow the links to AO3, it's included in tags there.

*********************************

The Absolute Truth of the Matter

On the way to Rosenlaui, Holmes falls behind to face Moriarty alone. When it is instead Watson who encounters the Professor at the Reichenbach Falls, events take an unexpected turn.

Or: Watson does a few ridiculously courageous things and there is a crack in Holmes's lens.

The Case of the Lost Cat

Annie hesitated, nervously turning the apple in her hands, lowering her gaze. “I must tell you first,” she mumbled, “that I can’t pay your fee, Mr Holmes, b-but I can help in the garden, or –“ „Oh, but lost animal cases are always free of charge,” Holmes said casually, folding the newspaper and throwing it onto the floor next to his armchair. He is, as I have often stated, really a rather brilliant man.

After the Great War, Holmes and Watson are living a quiet life somewhere in Sussex. The days of great detective work lie in the past, but when a distressed young client asks them for help with finding her lost cat, Holmes and Watson have to solve a case that might turn out to be just beyond their limits.

Flowery Prose

Holmes rarely read to me, and never like this.

[friday411]

May Prompt Day #4 ~ Fall

Reichenbach Falls

Sir Arthur at Sherlock was peeved. A plot to kill Holmes he conceived. Sherlock took a great fall, Moriarty and all. The world and Doc Watson then grieved.

-Friday411

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I'm going to try and do a Sherlock Holmes limerick every day, all month!

Please let me know if you can't stand it anymore, I'll take you off the list!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

@PanzerCat @blistering-typhoons @keirgreeneyes @lucere-aeresta @victorianpining @TotallySilverGirl @spacemutineer @rainbow-person @7-percent @iris-best-taken-in-small-doses @futabasglasses @i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end @weast-of-eden @jay-wasreblogging @thefisherqueen @chinike @Contact-guy @calaisreno @thegildedbee @estl-and-agape @sygneth @anneangel @futabasglasses @thequestionofme

@deelaundry @a-victorian-girl @thalialurksalot @prettyrealistic @ninasnakie @bs2sjh @calaisreno @paverage-blog @ladykeane @altingfinns @helloliriels @k2ntwo @jrow @sgam76 @dragonnan @arwamachine @naefelldaurk

[anotherwellkeptsecret]

I’m copying and pasting this because I couldn’t reblog the original post. If you want to share this, please reblog the original here. 

Here are some H/W ACD fics that I think you might enjoy, if you haven’t already read them:

Masked Ball by Waid (rated Teen, 31K) Six months after Holmes’ return from the dead, the delicate equilibrium in Baker Street is disturbed when  a stranger walks out of the London fog with a case – for Watson. Holmes is wary, Watson is fascinated. But who is the man calling himself Álvaro de León? And what does he really want?

The Missing Pages series by PlaidAdder (most are rated Teen, one is rated Mature, 83K). This is a group of interlinked short stories (most between 2000 and 7000 words) which tell the story of how Holmes and Watson  really came to be separated at the Reichenbach Falls, and how they found each other again. Each story is in the form of a document–a letter, a journal, a surveillance report, an affidavit, etc.–which is linked to one or more ACD canon tales, and which tells us something about that story that was changed or suppressed in Watson’s published account of it. Holmes/Watson, with glimpses of other relationships.

Birds to a Lighthouse by Katie Forsythe (rated Explicit, 54K) Every story has a Reichenbach, and this is theirs: what did James Moriarty do to cause Holmes to abandon his family for three years?

A Hymn to the Endlessly Falling by Katie Forsythe (rated Mature, 18K). In 1927, a funeral, a wedding, and Sherlock Holmes teach John Watson how to let go.

The Mirror of Myself by tweedisgood (rated Explicit, 10K). Who is the young client with the eerily familiar face? Why does the person he represents not want to come to Baker Street? Can Holmes solve a twenty-year-old mystery? How is Dr John “3 Continents” Watson coping with a life of celibacy these days?

The Apothecaries’ Garden by saki101 (rated Teen, 10K). Watson hopes to distract Holmes during a lull between cases.

The Seventeenth Page Affliction by EmmyAngua (rated Explicit, 10K). His face was so severe, so preoccupied that I knew at once that this case would be either a most intriguing story for my readers or one I never dared to retell.

Private Friends by orchid314 (rated Teen, 7K). John Watson tries to make sense of words and desire. Sometimes, he finds, that’s not such a simple task.

Intimations and The Taste of Love by nlr alicia (not rated, I would say Teen). The first is an epistolary chronicle from Lestrade’s point of view as he gradually grows to understand all that Holmes and Watson are to each other. The second is a series of epicurean vignettes that follow Holmes and Watson’s delight in more than one type of delicacy.

Sub Rosa by prof_pangaea (rated G, a story in images). “One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. The truly beautiful and noble puts its lover, as it were, at an infinite distance, while it attends him more strongly than ever.” – Henry David Thoreau. After Reichenbach Falls, Mycroft Holmes finds himself engaged in a singular telegram correspondence.

I believe you already read all of A_Candle_For_Sherlock’s stories, which I wholeheartedly recommend, and I also second the recommendation of Garonne’s works (I’m especially fond of The Incident with the Bicycle). Other excellent ACD writers who have a large catalogue to explore include sanspatronymic, spacemutineer, flawedamythyst, methylviolet10b, and mistyzeo.

And I’ll throw in a self-rec here at the end, too: you might like my WWI epistolary fic, Rewriting History (rated Teen, 10K). A correspondence between Holmes and Watson in the immediate aftermath of the Great War in which they discuss questions of history both public and personal.

Also, speaking of WWI, I haven’t had a chance to read this one yet, but I am sure that the writing and history will be marvelous, given that it’s written by OldShrewsburyian: The Craven Hive (rated Teen, 35K). In the last days of the First World War, Dr. Watson returns from the service for which he departed in “His Last Bow,” and looks for a new kind of work. He joins Dr. Arthur Hurst in his pioneering treatment of shell-shocked soldiers. But their work on the forefront of medical research, locked in battle against the destruction of the war, is disrupted by violent death. In addition to the obvious danger near at hand, there is the risk that this will discredit Hurst’s unusual methods. Dr. Watson does the only thing he can do: he calls in Holmes. The case will require their joint expertise, and all the wisdom of their shared experience.